GOODYEAR, Ariz. — Shane Bieber didn’t spend his winter importing pitch data into spreadsheets. He left that to his teammate and fellow changeup refiner, Trevor Bauer.

Bieber didn’t have high-speed footage to pore over. He didn’t even have intricate data to dissect. That sort of analysis didn’t come until after he arrived at the Indians’ spring complex days after the New England Patriots seized another Vince Lombardi Trophy.

But the mindset that accompanies that sort of pitch designing was plentiful. His work, tangible. And given his goal — an attempt to mold his changeup into a weapon — having the right mentality for honing it was critical.

“I wasn’t able to have access to (Edgertronic cameras) this offseason,” Bieber said, “But I was at least thinking in that sense of how is the ball coming out of my hand? What spin axis am I creating? That definitely helped me.”